Opinion: Peggy Noonan: The Incredible Shrinking President

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I ... I ... we had a really nice ... ones ... on the steering find the president said I ... while Marshall Congress first right ... any back down from that non the Iranian fronts yet ... I didn't see he was snubbed by the president last week of Iran in the U N V Phani came back with a phone call ... what does the world think about all of this what your sources telling you that's extraordinary month informed comments and ... I was the new land I've General ... Assembly convened ... in the past ten day is and and so I don't live in New York and I was here a lot speaking ... on to those in foreign policy diplomatic Sam foreign leaders ... and the big takeaway I had this that some many of these leaders ... are a little can cost still about what they see as ... America's ... latest short position in the past few years they are not just as clear on American leadership ... an American capability actually ... at the same time I think I correctly observed ... a game in you shouldn't in our current president stature ... people are not saying what is the president going the way they use it ... one of the people I spoke to had had had ... spent considerable time at a meeting with the new president of Erlam ... and I spoke to my friend afterwards and said so when the same battle Obama Nissan ... in hinting that Suntech didn't even come now ... it's like that's not that into it when we talk about helmet ... on thing ... ever seen it's it's it's it's it's disturbing ... I was start with ... your column is almost like the incredible shrinking President ... I do ... when we talk about so leaders perceptions of American presidents we often think of our great allies are European allies ... are Creek flows say ... on ... the day maybe that's China Russia ... but we often forget the Middle East aam and that's the region ... it's really a flame right now ... I did the sense of how our Middle Eastern allies arguing ... outside of Israel talking Saudi Arabia in these kinds of countries are viewing these overtures to Iran I think ... but the overtures to Iran I suppose there are mixed news ... I in them a nice but not up I'll tell you it can be ... deemed ... Syria fell off a few whales ... the sense that the president was onshore through the in the Syria crisis and he was like this it first demand like this at first but like Tom was doing ... and then was engulfed with the opinion of the American people as Congress wants to ... everybody was surprised by that ... um by the calls and emails that were nineteen oh one and we don't want this right now ... of the mixer the left yet the left things sort of ... startled What's the phrase people were little but back on their feet still over that was only a few weeks ago when the U and started coming together about a week ago so ... you can sorta feel that in the air as ... generally understood to be an embarrassment ... that ye ... may eat and relatively happily who knows there's a lot of mystery around ... well ... let's open ends happily one sided with up to me by airlines and the optimism by now it is my day with the optimistic declarations columnist Peggy